Tweet from a thread about who might defend Trump in an impeachment hearing.
Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT
As the House Democrats prepare for a second impeachment of President Trump, the president’s legal team for that round is coming into consideration, according a person familiar with the talks. 1/
Those from the first one likely to be involved are Giuliani, the person said, and aides are unclear on Dershowitz. Those who won’t be who were last time are Jay Sekulow, Marty and Jane Raskins, Pat Cipollone and Pat Philbin. 2/
Worth remembering that this trial is almost certain to take place after he is out of office. 3/3.
Phil Mattingley @phil_mattingley
i’ve spent the last several hours pondering the idea of Giuliani, he of “trial by combat” and calling senators as the Capitol was being overrun to delay proceedings longer, standing in front of senators defending Trump at an impeachment trial.
Its bonkers that Guilliani is a serious contender. But i do think thats a measure of how few options Trump has.
I note the wording of the above too. Dershowitz sounds far from a done deal. It sounds a lot like that's who Trump would like but he has yet to agree.
And you do have to ask the question here.
If this isn't likely to happen until Trump is out of office, Trump has a debt collection problem on 21st Jan and no guarantee of staying solvent.
Dershowitz is likely to be aware of this. Its been much reported that the Trump Campaign has got a poor record of paying its bills at all never mind on time.
With this in mind, Dershowitz may well have reservations about whats in it for him.
Especially if Guilliani is also on board!
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These Black Capitol Police Officers Describe Fighting Off "Racist Ass Terrorists"
Two Black officers told BuzzFeed News that their chief and other upper management left them totally unprepared and were nowhere to be found on the day.
The first glimpse of the deadly tragedy that was about to unfold came at 9 a.m. on the morning of the insurrection for one Black veteran of the US Capitol Police. But it didn’t come from his superiors — instead the officer had to rely on a screenshot from Instagram sent to him by a friend.
“I found out what they were planning when a friend of mine screenshot me an Instagram story from the Proud Boys saying, ‘We’re breaching the capitol today, guys. I hope y’all ready.’” The officer, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation from his superiors, told BuzzFeed News that it was just a sign of the chaos that was to come, which saw officers regularly finding themselves unprepared and then outmanned and overpowered by the mob.
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While some of the images from that day appeared to show officers standing by to let the mob into the Capitol building, the veteran officer said that they had fought them off for two hours before the attackers eventually gained access. The officer said that many of the widely spread images of smiling marauders, wandering the halls dressed in absurd costumes, had the effect of downplaying how well prepared some of the rioters were to overtake the building, and even to capture and kill Congress members.
“That was a heavily trained group of militia terrorists that attacked us,” said the officer, who has been with the department for more than a decade. “They had radios, we found them, they had two-way communicators and earpieces. They had bear spray. They had flash bangs ... They were prepared. They strategically put two IEDs, pipe bombs in two different locations. These guys were military trained. A lot of them were former military,” the veteran said, referring to two suspected pipe bombs that were found outside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee.
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“You have the nerve to be holding a blue lives matter flag, and you are out there fucking us up,” he told one group of protestors he encountered inside the Capitol. “[One guy] pulled out his badge and he said, ‘we’re doing this for you.’ Another guy had his badge. So I was like, ‘well, you gotta be kidding.’”
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The older Black officer didn’t think it was a simple case of treating the rioters differently from BLM protesters, but instead part of a bigger issue with how the agency is managed.
“Our chief was nowhere to be found, I didn’t hear him on the radio. One of our other deputy chiefs was not there,” he said. “You don’t think it’s all hands on deck?”